KEITH Markland taught in several Bolton secondary schools before being seconded in 1955 to the Ethiopian Ministry of Education.

In 1958, he joined a major British oil company in Iraq as a training specialist, eventually returning to the UK in 1965. He then worked for four years as a senior training adviser with the first Industry Training Board in Britain and subsequently spent over 13 years as the regional education and training manager for NEGAS, part of the British Gas Corporation. He retired in 1983 and now lives in the Yorkshire Dales.

But, as with many people brought up in Bolton, he has fond memories of the trams, and earlier this year the following articles were published in the respected magazine Tramway Review and were well received by tram enthusiasts.

It is a miscellany of personal reminiscences of trams, both informative and humorous and with drawings by Mr Markland, until their demise in 1947, and I am sure that the memories will also take you back to those days . .

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